Mark 6:39 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁹ And He ordered all of them to recline in groups on the green grass.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Then He commanded the people all to recline on the green grass by companies.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Common English Bible

³⁹ He directed the disciples to seat all the people in groups as though they were having a banquet on the green grass.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ And he instructed them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁹ And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

Mark 6:39 Cross References

Matthew 15:35

Then He ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground,

Mark 6:38

And He said to them, “How many loaves [of bread] do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five [barley] loaves [See John 6:9] and two [probably smoked] fish.”

Mark 6:40

So, they reclined in groups of fifty and one hundred.

Luke 9:14

For there were about five thousand men [there]. So, He said to His disciples, “Have these people recline [on the grass. See Matt. 14:19] in groups of about fifty each.”

John 6:10

Jesus answered, “Have these people recline [on the ground].” Now there was a lot of grass in that place. So, the men, numbering about five thousand, reclined [on the grass].

1 Corinthians 14:33

because God is not a God of disorder but of peace [i.e., harmony]. As is the practice in all of the churches of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people],

1 Corinthians 14:40

But everything [in the assembly] should be done properly and orderly.